CONSERVATORSHIP OF EMMA

Docket: Ken-16-32.

153 A.3d 102 (2017)

2017 ME 1

CONSERVATORSHIP OF EMMA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: January 5, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrice A. Putman, Esq. , Levey, Wagley & Putman, P.A., Winthrop, and Zachary L. Heiden, Esq. (orally), American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation, Portland, for appellant conservator of Emma.

Sigmund D. Schutz, Esq. , Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, LLP, Portland, for appellee Maine Freedom of Information Coalition.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, HJELM, and HUMPHREY, JJ.


[¶ 1] The Kennebec County Probate Court (J. Mitchell, J.) has reported a question to us that concerns public access to information held by probate courts in electronic format, specifically, financial information in conservatorship matters. Because we conclude that the reported question (1) raises broad issues that extend...

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